Trump wants to classify the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist groups

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Ku Klux Klan (archive picture): The association has several thousand members

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US President Donald Trump wants to classify the racist Ku Klux Klan and the Antifa as terrorist organizations if he wins the election on November 3rd.

That emerges from the election campaign "Promise for Black America", which Trump presented on Friday in Atlanta.

In it, the Republican US President is campaigning for the votes of black voters with his so-called "Platinum Plan", who traditionally support the majority of the Democrats. 

Hundreds of thousands of jobs and a national holiday

Trump also promises three million new jobs for African Americans, 500,000 new businesses by blacks and better access to education and training.

The US President did not reveal how he would like to implement this in practice.

According to the Reuters news agency, according to Trump's plans June 19 ("Juneteenth") will also be a national holiday.

Also known as "Freedom Day" marked the end of slavery in the United States in 1865, it is not celebrated in Hawaii, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Self-praise - and gossip about "Black Lives Matter"

Trump also claimed that he did more for African Americans during his tenure than his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in his decades-long political career.

"Racial justice begins with Joe Biden's withdrawal from public life," Trump etched.

"I'll always put Americans first, and that includes - very, very important - Black Americans."

At the same time, however, Trump cursed the Black Lives Matter movement, which plays a central role in the protests against police violence and racism.

The president claimed it had "extremely socialist" goals.

Therefore, according to the plan, in addition to the Ku Klux Klan, the left-wing Antifa should also be classified as terrorist.

Trump had brought the Antifa classification as a terrorist group into play earlier.

However, the Antifa has neither members nor a central organizational or management structure.

The supporters of the current from the left or radical left scene are united by an anti-fascist ideology.

How a ban would actually be implemented is therefore questionable.

The situation is different with the Ku Klux Klan: It was founded in 1865 and, according to estimates, today has several thousand members in several independent groups in the USA.

You make contact with right-wing extremists abroad, and there is also an offshoot in Germany.

The secret society is notorious for lynchings, especially of blacks, and other acts of violence.

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